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How we work

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How we're run

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Reports and financials

Read through our annual financial and activity reports, and find out about where our funds come from and how they are spent.

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Accountability

Read the policies, reports, and plans on how we address issues like racism and reduce our carbon footprint, ensuring our actions align with the highest ethical standards.

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What we do

Médecins Sans Frontières brings medical humanitarian assistance to victims of conflict, natural disasters, epidemics or healthcare exclusion.

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Where we work

In more than 70 countries, Médecins Sans Frontières provides medical humanitarian assistance to save lives and ease the suffering of people in crisis situations.

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MSF Access

MSF Access pushes for access to, and the development of, life-saving and life-prolonging medicines, diagnostic tests and vaccines for people in our programmes and beyond.

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CRASH

Based in Paris, CRASH conducts and directs studies and analysis of MSF actions. They participate in internal training sessions and assessment missions in the field.

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UREPH

Based in Geneva, UREPH (or Research Unit) aims to improve the way MSF projects are implemented in the field and to participate in critical thinking on humanitarian and medical action.

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ARHP

Based in Barcelona, ARHP documents and reflects on the operational challenges and dilemmas faced by the MSF field teams.

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MSF Analysis

Based in Brussels, MSF Analysis intends to stimulate reflection and debate on humanitarian topics organised around the themes of migration, refugees, aid access, health policy and the environment in which aid operates.

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MSF Supply

This logistical and supply centre in Brussels provides storage of and delivers medical equipment, logistics and drugs for international purchases for MSF missions.

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MSF Logistique

This supply and logistics centre in Bordeaux, France, provides warehousing and delivery of medical equipment, logistics and drugs for international purchases for MSF missions.

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Amsterdam Procurement Unit

This logistical centre in Amsterdam purchases, tests, and stores equipment including vehicles, communications material, power supplies, water-processing facilities and nutritional supplements.

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Brazilian Medical Unit

BRAMU specialises in neglected tropical diseases, such as dengue and Chagas, and other infectious diseases. This medical unit is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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MSF Medical Guidelines

Our medical guidelines are based on scientific data collected from MSF’s experiences, the World Health Organization (WHO), other renowned international medical institutions, and medical and scientific journals.

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Epicentre

Providing epidemiological expertise to underpin our operations, conducting research and training to support our goal of providing medical aid in areas where people are affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or excluded from health care.

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Evaluation Units

Evaluation Units have been established in Vienna, Stockholm, and Paris, assessing the potential and limitations of medical humanitarian action, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of our medical humanitarian work.

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LGBTQI+ Inclusion in Health Settings

MSF works with LGBTQI+ populations in many settings over the last 25-30 years. LGBTQI+ people face healthcare disparities with limited access to care and higher disease rates than the general population.

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LUXOR

The Luxembourg Operational Research (LuxOR) unit coordinates field research projects and operational research training, and provides support for documentation activities and routine data collection.

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MSF Academy for Healthcare

To upskill and provide training to locally-hired MSF staff in several countries, MSF has created the MSF Academy for Healthcare.

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Humanitarian Law

This Guide explains the terms, concepts, and rules of humanitarian law in accessible and reader-friendly alphabetical entries.

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MSF Paediatric Days

The MSF Paediatric Days is an event for paediatric field staff, policy makers and academia to exchange ideas, align efforts, inspire and share frontline research to advance urgent paediatric issues of direct concern for the humanitarian field.

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MSF Foundation

The MSF Foundation aims to create a fertile arena for logistics and medical knowledge-sharing to meet the needs of MSF and the humanitarian sector as a whole.

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DNDi

A collaborative, patients’ needs-driven, non-profit drug research and development organisation that is developing new treatments for neglected diseases, founded in 2003 by seven organisations from around the world.

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MSF Science Portal

Our digital portal dedicated to sharing the latest medical evidence from our humanitarian activities around the globe.

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Noma

Noma is a preventable and treatable neglected disease, but 90 per cent of people will die within the first two weeks of infection if they do not receive treatment.

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TIC

The TIC is aiming to change how MSF works to better meet the evolving needs of our patients.

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Telemedicine

MSF's telemedicine hub aims to overcome geographic barriers for equitable, accessible, and quality patient care.

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Sweden Innovation Unit

Launched in 2012, the MSF Sweden Innovation Unit deploys a human-centered approach for promoting a culture of innovation within MSF.

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Geo MSF

The GeoMSF platform is a dynamic one-stop-shop website for all of MSF's GIS related services and products. Access maps and applications through the catalogue, request geographical support, or produce a map on GeoMSF.

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Ebola disease in DRC: find out how we're responding
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A water truck is stuck in the mud in Palorinya refugee camp, Uganda. People take the opportunity to get much needed water when a water truck gets stuck in the mud after heavy rain. The impending rainy season will only make the situation worse as vehicles struggle to get around the camp.
Uganda

Over 900,000 South Sudanese refugees are in need of humanitarian aid

Over 630,000 refugees have since arrived in Uganda and thousands continue to arrive every week, bringing the total number of South Sudanese refugees and asylum-seekers to over 900,000. Project Update - 18 May 2017
 
Diffa region. Chetimari IHC, supported by MSF. Screening for cases of malnutrition by the medical staff at the IHC.
Niger

Diffa - the burden of violence

"I had to leave one place after the other due to repeated attacks." Project Update - 10 May 2017
 
For years, the Diffa region in southeastern Niger, which borders Nigeria and Chad, has suffered the consequences of the armed conflict between Boko Haram and the armies of the area. Around 240,000 people have had their lives interrupted by the conflict, and have been forced to live in the camps for internally displaced and refugees that have proliferated throughout the region.
Niger

Hepatitis E outbreak linked to water shortages and poor sanitation

“Water and sanitation activities in Diffa are clearly insufficient to meet people’s needs." Press Release - 26 Apr 2017
 
In parallel with the study into a new rotavirus vaccine, over 1,000 pregnant women are being monitored as part of a substudy that aims to evaluate the impact of the nutritional condition of pregnant women on the health of their babies. These mothers receive nutritional supplements. During their pregnancy, they attend four scheduled appointments with the medical team for monitoring purposes and so that vaginal swabs, blood specimens (malaria/thick smear/syphilis/HIV AIDS), and urine and stool specimens can be taken. These mothers also give permission for their newborn to be included in the study and monitored for two years by the Epicentre medical teams. At each of the scheduled appointments the mothers receive a transport allowance, plus three bars of soap and a food parcel containing bread, a drink and a tin of sardines.
Niger

Innovative vaccine against rotavirus

This slideshow explains the challenges posed by rotavirus and the existing constraints of the existing vaccines. It shows the story of the Epicentre Study in Maradi district, Niger. Photo Story - 21 Mar 2017
 
Tanzania

Testimonies from refugees in Nduta and Nyarugusu camps

Over 290,000 people live in refugee camps in Tanzania's northwestern Kigoma district. Voices from the Field - 20 Feb 2017
 
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Nigeria

MSF supports awareness of sexual violence in Port Harcourt

In early 2015, MSF opened the first comprehensive programme dedicated to survivors of sexual violence in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Voices from the Field - 5 Feb 2017
 
Dr. Veronica Siebenkotten – Branca, MSF gynaecologist, performs an ultrasound examination on a pregnant patient with Hepatites E at Am Timan hospital, Salamat Region, Chad. It is estimated that one in 25 patients with Hepatitis E is at risk of death, but for pregnant women in their third trimester, the risks of maternal and fetal mortality are much higher.
Chad

MSF teams treating and preventing hepatitis E in Am Timan

Project Update - 14 Dec 2016
 
MSF staff vaccinate children at the MSF-supported health centre in Boguila.
Central African Republic

Testimonies from MSF patients and staff

"I don’t usually travel on the roads due to the security situation. There are often armed men on the roads demanding things from the people who try to pass by. Even if you are on a bike or a motorcycle, they harass you for money. Even if you are trying to transport a sick person," says Zita. Voices from the Field - 16 Nov 2016
 
Twice a day MSF organizes a health promotion in the VVF (Vesico-Vaginal Fistula) camp of Shamwana. The "village" as it is called is a temporary institution in Tanganyika province, in southern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where women are being operated in order to repair their fistulas. Through singing and dancing health messages are passed on to the forty women and their caretakers, who are also involved as well and support the health promotion acoustically.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Vesico vaginal fistula camp living with dignity in solidarity

In July and August 2016, MSF organised a fistula camp in Shamwana, where 40 women received operations to repair their fistulas. Project Update - 31 Aug 2016
 
Sondela community in Rustenburg Municipality is wedged between an functioning mine shaft, a refuse dump and hostels. A recent MSF survey showed that 1 in 4 women in this large mining town in the Platinum Belt of South Africa have experienced rape in their lifetime. MSF is providing medical and psycho-social counselling for rape survivors here.
South Africa

All rape survivors should have access to comprehensive medical and psychosocial care

Project Update - 19 Aug 2016
Four mothers posing in a corridor of the Hospital in Bili. All four of them are staying in the hospital with their child, that's suffering from a severe case of malaria. Since the beginning of the project in 2016, the pediatric ward already treated more than 4.000 cases of complicated/severe form of malaria.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Independent medical humanitarian assistance

We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff - most of them hired locally. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of independence and impartiality. We are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organisation.

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